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Btw, is that correct? Everton are being punished for the same breach again? If so that clearly isn’t correct and the rules are deeply flawed. Surely any breaches which are punished should result in the year of the breach being zeroised. Although I guess that makes the rules game able as you park your losses to one year and enjoy the benefits the year after. Either way these rules have been poorly thought out.

What difference does it make? No matter how much we spend we are going to get those accusations anyway. Personally I want to see competitive balance and rules which encourage it, not rules which gate keep.

our goal is to win, not to become the seventh member, if that makes sense? your absolutely right, we’ve made great progress but we are still half of your revenue and you guys are still growing. We are trying to hit an ever increasing target which is compounded by the fact in order to generate the revenue the way people think is right you have to be successful, in order to be successful you have to spend. It’s a chicken and egg situation. We have some recognition sure, but we are still way behind on all metrics, I don’t think growing is so easy and ultimately it’s the finances which drive the on the pitch growth. When you guys became apart of the cartel, the gap was smaller and also the competition was less, that’s why you could do it. It was the same for us during KK days. It’s much more difficult now everything is way more advanced even clubs like Brighton have a formidable scouting network and are seen as the model club (note the model club stagnates and sells its best players yearly) this isn’t a model to envy if your a fan.

No, they are still under contract but in the books the contracts have been paid in full (we brought forward the cost of the wages in the books) and this is only in the books, they are still being paid by us and we still hold the players registration. Matty Longstaff doesn’t have a contract with us at all, it expired last summer and he’s now a free agent.

Iirc, when our wages to turnover ratio was 90% that was inclusive of some contracts we essential wrote off. Basically we believed the players in question couldn’t be sold and thus we took the financial hit in the books of writing them down to zero. (In essence whatever duration they had left on the contract we accounted for it in that one financial year as opposed to spread over the course of the contract). I hope that makes sense, I’m not an accountant so it’s difficult to explain sorry.

Termination is really bad in FFP terms as you have to pay everything out in one shot, as opposed to spreading the cost. that being said, we did write off wages for both Hayden and Hendrick already. (We’ve essentially accounted for the full contracts of those two in one period).

Leffe, no disrespect again but you haven’t done much, in terms of being successful. You’ve managed to hang on to the coat tails of the them but not meaningfully challenged for honours. We are heavily disadvantaged by the current rules because of Ashley’s neglect over the years, whilst everyone else was growing we went backwards and we had to ensure 14 years of this. This makes it extremely difficult to bridge the gap especially given since our takeover more stringent rules have been put in place to curtail our growth. Our locality is both a gift and a curse, yes we are a one club city but if you compare average incomes between London and Newcastle you will obviously see a massive gap, we simply can’t raise our revenue in the same way London clubs can. Some of our constraints may ease in July but they will have to as our squad will need significant investment, we have a lot of old players and a lot of out of contract players. We are getting in the game after the market has been inflated by the Chelsea’s and cities and the rules haven’t even moved with inflation (which they obviously should have at a minimum).

I haven’t listened to this yet but I know what you’ve described is exactly how it will go. Let’s be honest these journalist are self serving, they don’t want a club as far as Newcastle to be successful, imagine how much extra time they will have to spend driving up? The league has always been bought, I’m not sure where this narrative that it hasn’t has come from. When was the last time someone won the spent fuck all?

Any related party sponsor has to pass the fair market value test. Basically the EPL will decide how much you should be getting.

Rafa doing us a favour, waste of space this lad.

2 goals in 2 years, it’s an absolutely mental price.

What were Johnson’s numbers last season?

The longstaff of last season you can argue; he’s been pretty bad this season.

Not if you don’t have FFP headroom you can’t.

Read somewhere not sure if it was Kieran Maguire or Swiss ramble but they need to find a 100m before July.

Absolutely aye. But most of the coaches mentioned also employ a degree of tactical flexibility and I’m sure wouldn’t appreciate a square with our midfield balance.

It’s not even worth discussing unhappy player signs new contract aye.

Absolutely, zero leadership and zero continuity. They get away with it because of massive revenue. This is one of the long term worries I have with our approach tbh, our squad is very unbalanced and can only do one thing we are highly dependent on Eddie getting it right.

Aye they will vote on it and it will pass. The makeup of the league means restrictive FFP rules are very popular.

Fair play, I can see that too but it’s not so easy I think. Real have no use for him and Barca can’t afford him. So he’s left with City or Liverpool if he wants to realise that ambition.

At this juncture if your a club who lets the manager buy his own players you are setting yourself up for failure. The sporting director should be the long term hire, and he should have an assistant who is prime to takeover if he departs. They should share the same philosophy with regards to football and appoint a manager who also shares it. in this FFP era you can’t turnover your squad quickly or efficiently; you have to have a consistent approach to things.

Classic

FFP bro.

What makes you say that? France is perfect for him imo. Guaranteed trophies, CL every year, gets to live in one of the best cities in the world and knows the language. Its such an easy option for him.

It’s a reinforcement of FFP. Don’t you dare have ambition pleb, the established order isn’t to be disturbed.